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Friday, 3 December 2010

Oh the weather outside is frightful...

I know I said I would be back on Wednesday but it didn't happen. My week got taken over by a serious snow visitor that made itself at home. It came down quickly and heavily and decided to stay awhile. Keeping the children off school and in desperate need of entertaining, constant feeding and refueling in order to keep playing in the snow.

I haven't seen snow like this since I was about eighteen and living in Essex. We have had more snow this year than I have seen in the seven years we have lived here. Normally we miss every little bit of snow as we are near the coast.

I was getting quite irate on Tuesday when every news programme and weather forecast showed how Britain was gripped by heavy snow and we didn't even have an icicle growing off the conservatory. Then Wednesday morning, we woke up to about an inch of snow. School was still open, so the girls and I braved the elements by walking a mile and a half to school. I was not prepared to risk crashing my car on ice. As the day wore on, the snow kept falling and it was getting rather serious. Luckily hubby was at home, as he was unable to get to work and went to pick the girls up. He has a car that is built for bad weather and I actually call the car Nasher, as it eats up the snow.

The snow kept falling through the night and when we woke up yesterday morning, there was about six inches of snow. England came to a complete standstill. We are rubbish when it comes to snow and just cannot function. So school was shut and we headed out to play in the snow.

Hubby says I look like a soldier!

So as you can see my week has been hijacked!

I haven't even begun to make my Christmas journal, so I am already three days behind. I hope to get around to it today. I haven't written a book review all week and I have a stack of them left to do. I haven't even read anyone's blogs this week, so I do hope to get around today.

I hope you like the seasonal look to my blog. I was feeling rather festive with all this snow around.

I am so bad, I am always amused and jealous when other countries close of schools cos of snow. That has never happened here, once I had to walk to the bus with snow coming up to my knees, and once when it was -30c I my mum told me to stay home. I did and so did half the school ;) The other half had to sit with their coats on because the heating system went down, and still they were not sent home. But then snow and the cold does not bother us, we are used to having it for over 5 months a year.

I love the Christmasy look! The snow in your photos looks pretty but I know from experience that it's not fun to drive in. We're expecting our first snow storm tonight but only a few inches. Good luck with your Christmas journal :-)

Love the new look, and that book you're currently reading with the hands in gloves and the present in them? That's nearly identical to the book I'm posting about today: Let it Snow! I think the present on my cover is green though, but it's the same hands. :D

The snow in Essex is just as bad, this is my fourth snow day from school :) I do need to go and scrape all the snow of my car soon though before it freezes up - not a job I'm looking forward to.Hope you're managing to get some reading done while at home x

Wow look at all that lovely snow! We've only had flurries so far but we're expecting to get several inches over the weekend and I'm weirdly excited, though not so much for the cleanup aspect, I just want it to look like winter, you know?

I love the pictures. It's nice to see someone else get it - sorry. lol. I saw on our news here that you had gotten a lot of snow and that things had come to a standstill. I know you aren't used to it there but here 6 inches is a drop in the bucket. You don't get really, really cold there though do you? We're supposed to get some snow today so we'll have to see. Last night it rained a bit on our snow which isn't good at all.

Lovely pictures, lovely festive look to your blog page too! We had snow here in Seattle also, the week of our Thanksgiving holiday and basically everything here comes to a complete standstill also. Hills everywhere, and when there is a layer of ice under the compacted snow cars are useless.Hope you have a great weekend and feel you get your time back.*smiles*